Fiber vs. Cotton — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fiber and Cotton
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Fiber
Fiber or fibre (from Latin: fibra) is a natural or man-made substance that is significantly longer than it is wide. Fibers are often used in the manufacture of other materials.
Cotton
Cotton is a soft, fluffy staple fiber that grows in a boll, or protective case, around the seeds of the cotton plants of the genus Gossypium in the mallow family Malvaceae. The fiber is almost pure cellulose.
Fiber
A slender, elongated, threadlike object or structure.
Cotton
Any of various shrubby plants of the genus Gossypium, having showy flowers and grown for the soft white downy fibers surrounding oil-rich seeds.
Fiber
(Botany) One of the elongated, thick-walled cells that give strength and support to plant tissue.
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Cotton
The fiber of any of these plants, used in making textiles and other products.
Fiber
Any of the filaments constituting the extracellular matrix of connective tissue.
Cotton
Thread or cloth manufactured from the fiber of these plants.
Fiber
Any of various elongated cells or threadlike structures, especially a muscle fiber or a nerve fiber.
Cotton
Any of various soft downy substances produced by other plants, as on the seeds of a cottonwood.
Fiber
A natural or synthetic filament, as of cotton or nylon, capable of being spun into yarn.
Cotton
To take a liking; attempt to be friendly
A dog that didn't cotton to strangers.
An administration that will cotton up to the most repressive of regimes.
Fiber
Material made of such filaments.
Cotton
To come to understand. Often used with to or onto
"The German bosses ... never cottoned to such changes" (N.R. Kleinfield).
Fiber
An essential element of a person's character
"stirred the deeper fibers of my nature" (Oscar Wilde).
Cotton
Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
Fiber
Strength of character; fortitude
Lacking in moral fiber.
Cotton
Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
Fiber
Coarse, indigestible plant matter, consisting primarily of polysaccharides such as cellulose, that when eaten stimulates intestinal peristalsis. Also called bulk, roughage.
Cotton
Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.
Fiber
(countable) A single elongated piece of a given material, roughly round in cross-section, often twisted with other fibers to form thread.
The microscope showed a single blue fiber stuck to the sole of the shoe.
Cotton
(textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
Fiber
(uncountable) A material in the form of fibers.
The cloth is made from strange, somewhat rough fiber.
Cotton
(countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.
Fiber
(textiles) A material whose length is at least 1000 times its width.
Please use polyester fiber for this shirt.
Cotton
Made of cotton.
Fiber
Dietary fiber.
Fresh vegetables are a good source of fiber.
Cotton
(transitive) To provide with cotton.
Fiber
(figuratively) Moral strength and resolve.
The ordeal was a test of everyone's fiber.
Cotton
To supply with a cotton wick.
Fiber
(mathematics) The preimage of a given point in the range of a map.
Under this map, any two values in the fiber of a given point on the circle differ by 2π.
Cotton
To fill with a wad of cotton.
Fiber
(category theory) The pullback of a morphism along a global element (called the fiber of the morphism over the global element).
Cotton
(horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
Fiber
(computing) A kind of lightweight thread of execution.
Cotton
To cover walls with fabric.
Fiber
(cytology) A long tubular cell found in bodily tissue.
Cotton
(tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
Fiber
One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.
Cotton
To make or become cotton-like
Fiber
Any fine, slender thread, or threadlike substance; as, a fiber of spun glass; especially, one of the slender rootlets of a plant.
Cotton
To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
Fiber
The inherent complex of attributes that determine a person's moral and ethical actions and reactions; sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
Yet had no fibers in him, nor no force.
Cotton
To develop a porous, cottony texture.
Fiber
A general name for the raw material, such as cotton, flax, hemp, etc., used in textile manufactures.
Cotton
To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
Fiber
That portion of food composed of carbohydrates which are completely or partly indigestible, such as cellulose or pectin; it may be in an insoluble or a soluble form. It provides bulk to the solid waste and stimulates peristalsis in the intestine. It is found especially in grains, fruits, and vegetables. There is some medical evidence which indicates that diets high in fiber reduce the risk of colon cancer and reduce cholesterol levels in the blood. It is also called dietary fiber, roughage, or bulk.
Cotton
To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
Fiber
A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth.
Cotton
To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
Fiber
A slender and greatly elongated solid substance
Cotton
To rub or burnish with cotton.
Fiber
The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions;
Education has for its object the formation of character
Cotton
To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
Fiber
A leatherlike material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth
Cotton
A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
Cotton
The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
Cotton
Cloth made of cotton.
Cotton
To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
It cottons well; it can not choose but bearA pretty nap.
Cotton
To go on prosperously; to succeed.
New, Hephestion, does not this matter cotton as I would?
Cotton
To unite; to agree; to make friends; - usually followed by with.
A quarrel will end in one of you being turned off, in which case it will not be easy to cotton with another.
Didst see, Frank, how the old goldsmith cottoned in with his beggarly companion?
Cotton
To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; - used with to.
Cotton
Silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
Cotton
Fabric woven from cotton fibers
Cotton
Erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
Cotton
Thread made of cotton fibers
Cotton
Take a liking to;
Cotton to something
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